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Banking on one another: Can the crowd save itself from the banks?

Posted on by Ville Miettinen

… funding for small businesses, allow lenders greater control.

Despite their growth, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending only accounts for around $270 million of lending in the US. Such a measly amount is nowhere near sufficient to meet demand caused by banks’ current unwillingness to lend.

The reasons for the small numbers (when did 270 million become a small number? ) are numerous. There’s understandable reluctance from customers to manage their own lending. Crowdbanking ( or maybe …

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Flattery will get you everywhere

Posted on by Tommaso De Benetti

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The Swedes are interesting people, known for their tasty meatballs and thinking outside the box, even when thinking inside it . Just as they revolutionized furniture, tennis and ski-jumping , with The Pirate Bay (TPB) they changed our perception of copyright infringement forever.

Right to copy?

Before a few geeks in Stockholm brought us TPB, there were …

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